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Printed models by our communityhttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=3936&th=844#msg_3936
<![CDATA[Hi all,<br />
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In the home page, there is section called &quot;printed models by our community&quot; which contains the images of the latest models that have been uploaded.<br />
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Unfortunately, very often, these images are only computer generated, and do not imply that the model has ever been printed.<br />
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That's a pity because for someone who wants to purchase an object, knowing that it has already been printed (well, already sucessfully been printed) is very important.<br />
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I suggest adding a check box when uploading an image to specify whether the image is computer generated or a picture of the actual printed object. It should not been very complex to do and if everybdy is a little bit disciplined, it could work...<br />
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More generally, I think it would be valuable to add a tag (or something) specifying whether an object has already been sucessfully printed and can be ordered safely. But I understand that this can be more complex...<br />
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What do you think ?<br />
]]>Magic2009-04-15T19:16:47-00:00Re: Printed models by our communityhttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=3937&th=844#msg_3937
<![CDATA[Hi Magic,<br />
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Thanks for the feedback!<br />
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Yes it would be ideal if we could show actual photographs of printed models. Some users upload pictures after printing and some don't. It has our attention.<br />
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I like your idea of tagging or classifying uploaded photographs. Let me forward that internally.<br />
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Cheers!<br />
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Robert]]>robert2009-04-15T20:16:00-00:00Re: Printed models by our communityhttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=3938&th=844#msg_3938
<![CDATA[Hi guys,<br />
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I agree that it would be beneficial to:<br />
1) See more photographs of printed models, and<br />
2) use flags to be able to quickly determine which models have been printed successfully.<br />
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A fairly quick and simple (perhaps temporary) solution for (2) would be to have the community agree on a 'keyword' to use in the tags section of their models to say &quot;this model has a 'successfully printed' photograph attached&quot;. That would allow users to search the gallery by keyword to browse only those models that have been successfully printed.<br />
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Here are a couple ideas that could help with (1):<br />
(Now, I'm not saying this is necessarily a *good* idea, just a possibility).<br />
Shapeways could offer a service to model owners for which the Shapeways staff would take a photo (or photos) of a model before it got shipped out to the person who purchased it. (Again, just a possibility.)<br />
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Another idea would be to add a check box, available to model owners, that would &quot;allow buyers to upload photos of this model&quot;.<br />
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<img src="http://www.shapeways.com/forum/images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"><br />
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~David<br />
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]]>jdavidbush2009-04-16T00:56:56-00:00Re: Printed models by our communityhttp://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=3994&th=844#msg_3994
<![CDATA[Hi David,<br />
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I try add in the description the mention &quot;NOT PRINTED YET&quot; or &quot;SUCCESSFULLY PRINTED&quot; for my items (I confess I do not do it each time), and I think having a <b>convention for the tags</b> would be a good idea (actually, when I was speaking about a &quot;tag&quot; in my first post, I was meaning a new special field, but we can in effect use the regular tags for that, as you suggested).<br />
I also try to indicated in the description of a picture if it is a &quot;CGI rendering&quot; or a &quot;picture of the actual printed object&quot;.<br />
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We do not need any new development for that, we just need to agree on the naming convention (for tags and perhaps name - or beginning of the name - for the picture description), be as numerous as possible to follow these rules and then of course be disciplined <img src="http://www.shapeways.com/forum/images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"> .<br />
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So my question is: are there any other persons that are ready to follow this kind of rules if one day they exist?<br />
(or should we do a poll for that?)]]>Magic2009-04-21T21:03:45-00:00